June Workshops

​Technique Workshop7pm -9.30pm - Workshop exploring different processes, styles anything that lends itself to developing pieces. This will be decided in advance. If you are interested in running a workshop please contact grainne@atlargetheatre.com

Dramaturgical Workshop7pm-9.30pm - Showing of work and feedback​If you wish to share some work, have a script read or discuss an idea please email grainne@atlargetheatre.com at least a week beforehand with approximate length of time needed.

Week 1 - 2nd June Facilitator - Dominik DomresonskiTechnique/ style - Working as an EnsembleTheme - Ensemble​Title - Working as an Ensemble II

This workshop will focus on the basic principles working as an ensemble that should be useful to actors and writers alike when approaching a script or working on a group theatre project

​​This workshop will explore Forum theatre using a pertinent social issue and developing a performance around it.Forum theatre is a type of theatre created by the innovative and influential practitionerAugusto Boal as part of what he calls his "Theatre of the Oppressed." Boal created Forum theatre as a forum for teaching people how to change their world. While practicing earlier in his career, Boal would apply 'simultaneous dramaturgy'. In this process the actors or audience members could stop a performance, often a short scene in which a character was being oppressed in some way. The audience would suggest different actions for the actors to carry out on-stage in an attempt to change the outcome of what they were seeing. This was an attempt to undo the traditional actor partition and bring audience members into the performance, to have an input into the dramatic action they were watching. Eventually this 'simultaneous dramaturgy' became Forum theatre when audience members were asked not just to suggest different actions, but to come on stage and perform their own interventions.Avante Garde is a movement within theatre that rejects the bourgeoisie notion of passive audience and aspires to connect the audience with the actors and the piece and create a real experience. We will look at some of the key practitioners of the movement.

The Theatre of the Oppressed (TO) describes theatrical forms that the Brazilian theatre practitionerAugusto Boal first elaborated in the 1960s, initially in Brazil and later in Europe. Boal was influenced by the work of the educator and theorist Paulo Freire. Boal's techniques use theatre as means of promoting social and political change. In the Theatre of the Oppressed, the audience becomes active, such that as "spect-actors" they explore, show, analyse and transform the reality in which they are living.

At Large is dedicated to providing a forum for the development and production of new work. As part of our weekly workshop series the last workshop of every month will be dedicated to the sharing of new pieces. Everyone at the workshop gets involved from reading a part to taking a look at the piece from different perspectives such as director, actor, audience member and asks the writer questions from that particular point of view. This can be quite dynamic and can involve the use of various activities for example placing the actors in the appropriate positions of stage and giving actors pieces of dialogue to improvise around to help the writer make it more realistic. the group is open to any other ideas that might help a playwright tell their story.

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